{"id":25,"date":"2008-02-11T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T17:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostlynf.wordpress.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2008-02-11T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T17:26:16","slug":"a-contract-with-the-earth-newt-gingrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"A Contract With the Earth (Newt Gingrich)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>QUICK TAKE<\/b>:\u00a0 <b><i>A Contract With the Earth<\/i><\/b> by Newt Gingrich [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/4140275\/book\/23186127\" title=\"A Contract With the Earth\" target=\"_blank\">LibraryThing<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/worldcatlibraries.org\/oclc\/132583955\" title=\"A Contract With the Earth\" target=\"_blank\">WorldCat<\/a>] is a book-length proposal for a new environmental policy.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t as science-oriented as Bjorn Lomborg&#8217;s <i>Cool It<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/2830854\/book\/21160212\" title=\"Cool It\" target=\"_blank\">LibraryThing<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/worldcatlibraries.org\/oclc\/124074897\" title=\"Cool It\" target=\"_blank\">WorldCat<\/a>], nor as hyperbolic as Al Gore&#8217;s <i>An Inconvenient Truth <\/i>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/936823\" title=\"An Inconvenient Truth\" target=\"_blank\">LibraryThing<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/worldcatlibraries.org\/oclc\/69249460\" title=\"An Inconvenient Truth\" target=\"_blank\">WorldCat<\/a>].\u00a0 It fell somewhere in between while trying to advocate civil discourse.\u00a0 E.O. Wilson&#8217;s foreword added to the ecological credibility.\u00a0 The book wasn&#8217;t bad, but simply much longer than needed.\u00a0 A Contract with the Earth could have been laid out just as convincingly in a magazine article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUICK TAKE:\u00a0 A Contract With the Earth by Newt Gingrich [LibraryThing \/ WorldCat] is a book-length proposal for a new environmental policy.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t as science-oriented as Bjorn Lomborg&#8217;s Cool It [LibraryThing \/ WorldCat], nor as hyperbolic as Al Gore&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/?p=25\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[114,260,178],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-environment","tag-government","tag-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}